With a lot of amplifiers post mid eighties, then most quality record decks will need a pre-amp between the record deck and the amp, to bring the signal up to the level that just about every other bolt-on you'd plug in your amp, provides.

What is left of your dream?Just the words on your stone.A man who learnt how to teach,But forgot how to learn.

I owned all queen vinyls up to The Works the first time around and then switched to CD. I've recently got back into Vinyl and picked up a few Queen 12"s including an etched version of Scandal and will be picking up The Studio Collection on release.

I owned all queen vinyls up to The Works the first time around and then switched to CD. I've recently got back into Vinyl and picked up a few Queen 12"s including an etched version of Scandal and will be picking up The Studio Collection on release.

The Scandal 12" single includes My Life Has Been Saved as the B-side.

As does the 7"

What is left of your dream?Just the words on your stone.A man who learnt how to teach,But forgot how to learn.

I owned all queen vinyls up to The Works the first time around and then switched to CD. I've recently got back into Vinyl and picked up a few Queen 12"s including an etched version of Scandal and will be picking up The Studio Collection on release.

If that says EMTV30 on the left hand side under an EMI logo, then it isn't a 2015 release.

I've seen Central American Greatest Hits on red vinyl, and as I was once told, anything pressed out of the ordinary in Central America, is possibly about as "official as anything ever gets in Central America", suggesting that there is little difference between a pirated copy, and what comes out of a licensed factory, in that they press pretty much whatever they want, whether they have permission or not.

What is left of your dream?Just the words on your stone.A man who learnt how to teach,But forgot how to learn.

I just bought the Live Magic album on vinyl, firstly because I like the artwork on this gatefold vinyl with the big photo of the helicopter from their very last concert ever, at Knebworth Park 1986. I think it is one of their better live album artworks. Secondly I bought this one, because it includes mostly songs from the Knebworth concert (75% ) as well. I know some tracks are edited, but still, this album is not overprized, and there are not as many of these vinyls as other ordinary Queen albums that has been re-released on vinyl many times. I wanted to get a decent version of it before they get too shabby and hard to get.

I must admit that I prefer the gatefold albums over the standard ones too. After all the big format artwork is one of the main reasons that I prefer vinyl over CDs. So I guess the next one will be Queen II, ANATO, News Of The World or Jazz. With these it will be the studio collection series, brand new. The new Queen II looks fantastic, especially the box-set one, but also the standard black vinyl. The glossy cover with the updated photo is as good as it can possibly get.

Figures show sales of vinyl albums are set to grow by another 70% this year.

The charts company said it was responding to "the huge surge of interest" that has seen vinyl sales climb from a low of 0.1% of the albums market in 2007 (205,000) to 1.5% in 2014 (1.29m).

"Yes, it's still a small part of the business," admitted chief executive Martin Talbot."But what makes this so unusual is that usually you see new formats arrive and grow in popularity, reach their peak and then they decline and kind of disappear.

"Here you've got something that has grown in popularity back in the 60s and 70s, declined in popularity through the 80s and 90s, got right the way down to the bottom and then started climbing back out again."

"There's the audiophiles who swear by the sound of vinyl, the people who like owning it as a collectors' piece, and then groups like our fans who buy a vinyl of our record simply so they can hang it on their wall."

It says it all really. Vinyl has proved it's qualities. It survived the age of cassettes, CDs and digital downloads, and came back as a winner! When quality and artwork matters, nothing beats vinyl.